Former senator · Pennsylvania

Patrick J. Toomey

Patrick J. Toomey served in Congress from 1999 to 2023, last as a Republican senator from Pennsylvania. In the 117th Congress, 949 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 105, and cast 599 of 682 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party: Republican
Chamber: Senate; Former
In Congress since: Jan 6, 1999
Last term ended: Jan 3, 2023

Open in the Congress explorer Official record

Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

Record by Congress

Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.

Congress	Roll calls	Missed	Votes with party	Sponsored	Cosponsored across the aisle
117th CongressSenate	949	11.1%105 of 949 · rank 5 of 100	88%599 of 682 · rank 84 of 100	330 became law	34%38 of 111

Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)

Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 117th Congress (Senate), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1+0.62+1 Conservative

Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Votes against their party

The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.

H.R. 2471: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022Nay
Mar 10, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 35–64· Against party
H.R. 1319: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021Nay
Mar 6, 2021· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 45–54· Against party
H.R. 1319: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021Nay
Mar 6, 2021· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 48–51· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 93–4
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 90–6
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 88–8
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Nay
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 92–5· Against party
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Nay
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 73–24
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 40–57
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 44–53
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 47–50
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Nay
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 10–87
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 47–50
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 34–63
H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 34–63

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

No committee seats are listed.

Campaign money

What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.

2022 cycle

Raised: $29.5K; through Dec 31, 2022
Cash on hand: $1.1M
From committees: -$122.3K; 3 committees
From contractor PACs: -$40.5K; 0 PACs · — of committee money

IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

Senate · PennsylvaniaJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2023
Senate · PennsylvaniaJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2017
House · Pennsylvania's 15th districtJan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2005
House · Pennsylvania's 15th districtJan 3, 2001 – Jan 3, 2003
House · Pennsylvania's 15th districtJan 6, 1999 – Jan 3, 2001

Identifiers

The same member in other public records.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)

Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.